this is a game i really really wanna play, but i'm noticing a content warning of insect imagery..now that i can cope with, but i get serious panic attacks if i even see an image of a cockroach (even just typing the word feels super uncomfortable) so iiii am too scared to play in case something like that happens :3
Heya! a lot of the insect depictions comes down to describing the main character as being chitinous, or leaving his pupa (the mc which you only see depicted as abstract scribbles or hands in 1st person POV) as well as small illustrations in each of the endings. there is a single mention of roaches if you look decide to look into the mirror, but it can be skipped entirely if you wish. The only roach imagery in the entire game is in the ending card in ending 3. I highly suggest you avoid that ending for that reason. Please don't feel pressured to play if it makes you uncomfy (the warnings are there for a reason after all ^^), but I hope this detailed explanation might help you decide!
i hope this helps! ^^
thiis..was a great time! i even played through the ending you warned me about..but i held my hand in front of the screen so i can only see the text when going for it
other than that..i really liked it! as someone who's nonbinary and does very often experience dysphoria, i'm happy my parents didn't have such a bad reaction when i came but i still know how it feels from how others have been to me (plus my stepdad is conservative so. woo)
looking at it outside of the metaphor, i still find this concept really really cool!!
maisie is so wonderful she has the swag and the heart of a true swagster
dad at least means well even if his heart isn't in the right place so i'll give him a pass
mom. i'm not giving her the honor of words
this is totally stuff i'd wanna see more of..i dunno where it'd go, but still! and god i would KILL to see more of whatever in tarnation you wake up as because if the (half) face and the hands are anything to go by it would sure kick some real ass
edit: my forensics teacher would love this game, when we were in our entomology unit he tried so hard to show that yes, bugs have chitin exoskeletons, tried so hard that it felt like he was trying to prove to us that he knew rather than just teaching us entomology lmao
Thank you so much for giving it a try, and I'm glad to hear you had a great time with it, and I really appreciate the time you took to write it ^^
Honestly, feel free to come up with your own ideas and designs for the mc, I prefer to leave em as vague scribbles so folks can do as they like with it ^^ (Also your i didn't know forensics had an entomology unit, that's so interesting! don't mind me getting off-track here, though. I do hope your forensics teachers enjoys it if they decide to give it a try!)
of course!! this is something i simply couldn't pass up on..
i might just well do that! i understand you left it vague so people of all sorts experiencing this issue can just make the mc their own and relate to it more, and what i had in mind for em, well heck i'd wake up any day as that! and yes my forensics teacher would have a heart attack when he sees the word "chitinous" and "pupa"
sorry if i ramble a lot i get very hyper around these sorta things..totally awesome mc design even if it is vague...
i play a lot of visual novels on itch.io (like a lot a lot) and i gotta say this is one of my favorites for the idea alone, plus this is one of the few i've played where the mc doesn't fall into the same personality as so many other visual novel devs make! you know..where like..they're more stoic and usually have adverse reactions to things..like if squidward were the main character- this one felt more interesting! but maybe that's just the whole. thing that happened i dunno
i'm super excited to draw them in my ideas..i make a lot of characters in general but heck i haven't had ideas for such an interesting one such as this- i will draw them so much..
I'm really happy to hear that you enjoy the idea, as well as the characterisation, and I hope you'll have fun playing around with the character concepts ^^
(also edit bc i didnt catch the tone last night: please do not criticize other devs here, most of them are fellow indie devs who are doing their best to make their dream games and provide free/very affordable games for all of us to enjoy. A lot of hard work comes with making a game even as small as this, and I think people can and should be allowed to make art regardless of their skills. Of course it's fine for you to have your own opinions about all media, but please do be kind to the devs who are doing their best and made these games with a lot of love (because I'm sure as hell most of us don't make bank through these games))